Extension window-shade and curtain-rod fixture.



'J. M. TROMBLY.

EXTENSION WINDOW SHADE AND CURTAIN ROD FIXTURE. APPLICATION FILED 1m,1910.

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W Qt My JERRY M. TROMBLY, OF I-IIGHGA'I'E CENTER, VERMONT.

EXTENSION WINDOW-SHADE AND CURTAIN-ROD FIXTURE.

Application filed January 3, 1910.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 4, 1911.

Serial No. 536,249.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JERRY M. TnoMnLY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Highgate Center, in the county of Franklin and State ofVermont, have invented new and useful Improvements in ExtensionVVindow-Shade and Curtain-Rod Fixtures, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in combined curtain and windowshade holders, and the primary object of the invention is to provide adevice of this character -which has its main or body portion constructedof a single piece of suitable metal, and which is provided with a shadeholder engaging the tongue which can be easily and quickly adjusted uponthe body and se curely retained in said adjusted position.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention resides in thenovel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafterfully set forth and especially referred to in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, which forms part of this specification:Figure 1 is a top plan view of a device constructed in accordance withthe present invention, the same being applied to a window casing. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the device detached. Fig. 3 is a frontelevation of the device. Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 5is a top plan view, parts being broken away to more clearly illustratethe details of the device. Fig. 6 is a transverse sectional view uponthe line 6-6 of Fig. Fig. 7 is a longitudinal sectional view upon theline 7'7 of Fig. 3.

The body of the improved device is constructed of a single strip ofsuitable metal and is formed so as to comprise a substantiallyrectangular casing.

The numeral 1 designates the back plate of the device. This plate hasits forward portion provided with a projection in which is formed aperforation, and the opposite end of the said plate 1 is rounded so asto provide a semi-cylindrical depression which may be termed an eye 4.The plate is then continued in a spaced parallel relation with its backportion 1 and the extremities of the plate opposite to that provided bythe perforation formed upon the plate 1 is bent in substantially an Lshaped manner so as to form a longitudinal ear 7 having a perforation 8,which alines with the perforation in the projecting portion of the rearplate 1,

Both of said perforations are adapted for the reception of a headedthreaded element 9 whereby the device may be fixed substantially uponthe sill of a window.

The front portion of the device is provided with a plurality of spacedvertical extending slots 6, and the upper and lower edges of the forwardplate are bent rearwardly, and from thence forwardly upon each other toprovide the top and bottom of the device, as well as the substantiallylongitudinally extending channels 2 and 3 of the device.

It is to be understood that the device is to be constructed of somebendable and resilient material, and the outer lips or portions providedby the channels 2 and 3 are adapted to exert a pressure toward the topand bottom of the device.

The rear plate 1 has its body formed with a plurality of substantial keyhole slots 10 and these slots are also adapted to receive a retainingelement 11 when the front of the device is forced away from the rearplate 1 thereof so as to allow space for the insertion of a screwdriver, hammer or the like.

The numeral 14 designates the curtain supporting bracket. This bracket145 comprises a body member 15 and has its u per extremity provided withsuitable perforations or openings which are adapted to receive thepintles or axles of the shade bracket 17. The bracket members are alsoconstructed of resilient material and the same have their upper andlower extremities adjacent their rear edges provided with curved cars 18while integrally formed upon the brackets and positioned central of saidears are tongues 19. These tongues 19 are parallel with the body and areadapted to enter within the slots or cut-away portions 6 of the device,while the ears 18 are adapted to engage between the top and bottom andthe over and underlying members forming the tongues 2 and 3 and to beeffectively and securely retained in any adjusted position in relationto the openings.

It will be noted that the eye 4 is adapted for the reception of asuitable rod 12 to which the curtain pole 13 is attached.

Having thus described the invention what I claim as new is:-

1. In a device for the purpose set forth, a combined window shade androd support ing bracket constructed of a single piece of bendablematerial and comprising a substantially rectangular structure, thedevice being provided upon one of its ends with openings adapted for thereception of a resilient element, the opposite end of the device beingformed with an eye, the face of the device being provided with aplurality of spaced openings, the top and bottom of the device beingformed with channels, each of said channels opening at the face of thedevice provided by the cut-away portion, the upper walls provided byeach of the channels adapted to exert a pressure toward the upper andlower edges of the device, and a bracket member adapted to engage boththe cutaway portions and within the channels of the device.

2. In a device for the purpose set forth, a back plate, said back platebeing curved to form an eye and extended to form the face of the device,means for securing the face to the back plate, the face being'providedwith a plurality of spaced vertical extending slots, the longitudinaledges of the face being bent rearwardly and forwardly to providechannels, and a curtain pole supporting bracket adapted to engage thevertical slots and the channels.

8. In a device for the purpose set forth, constructed of a single pieceof metal forming a back plate, said back plate having one of its endsprovided with an opening and its body provided with a plurality of keyhole openings, the back plate'having its opposite end bent to provide aneye and being extended forwardly over the back plate and adapted to liein spaced relation therewith, this spaced portion having one of its endsoifset and provided with an opening alining with the opening of the backplate, said wall or face being provided with a plurality of spacedvertical extending slits, the longitudinal edges of the face being bentrearwardly over the longitudinal edges of the back plate and from thencebent forwardly over themselves to provide channels, a curtain supportingbracket, said bracket having its upper rear portion slit adjacent itsedges to form ears, and a tongue between the ears, said ears beingadapted to engage one of the cutaway portions of the face and adapted toengage within the channels, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

c JERRY M. TROMBLY. Witnesses D. W. STEELE, J OSEIHENE H. LYON.

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